{"id":1102,"date":"2015-01-12T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:56:51","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-obitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1102\/retro-scan-of-the-week-obitus","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Secrets of Obitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/obitus_snes_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/obitus_snes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Psygnosis BPS Obitus SNES Super NES RPG EGM advertisement - 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Dare ye gaze into the sacred gems of immortality?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here we have an ad for the Super NES port of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obitus\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Obitus<\/em><\/a> (1994), a Psygnosis RPG for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS originally released in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to say I&#8217;ve played this one, but I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember if I actually liked it.  I know I tried it, especially after first scanning this ad some years ago.  Is anyone out there a fan of either the PC or SNES versions of <em>Obitus<\/em>?  It sure looks cool.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly &#8211; November 1994, p.39]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> In your opinion, what&#8217;s the best PC to video game console RPG port of the 1980s or 90s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare ye gaze into the sacred gems of immortality? Here we have an ad for the Super NES port of Obitus (1994), a Psygnosis RPG for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS originally released in 1991. I&#8217;d like to say I&#8217;ve played this one, but I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[166,150,1010,1006,143,1008,1009,60,1007,175],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-166","tag-advertisement","tag-bps","tag-electronic-gaming-monthly","tag-nintendo","tag-obitus","tag-psygnosis","tag-retro-scan","tag-rpg","tag-super-nes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}